From: owner-cdn-firearms-digest@scorpion.bogend.ca (Cdn-Firearms Digest) To: cdn-firearms-digest@scorpion.bogend.ca Subject: Cdn-Firearms Digest V15 #413 Reply-To: cdn-firearms-digest@scorpion.bogend.ca Sender: owner-cdn-firearms-digest@scorpion.bogend.ca Errors-To: owner-cdn-firearms-digest@scorpion.bogend.ca Precedence: normal owner-cdn-firearms-digest@scorpion.bogend.ca Cdn-Firearms Digest Monday, December 24 2012 Volume 15 : Number 413 In this issue: [none] [none] [none] [none] [none] [none] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: From: Subject: [none] Date: Sun, 23 Dec 2012 19:56:09 -0600 From: Larry James Fillo Subject: Sen. Daniel Inouye 1924-2012 Impressive. Sen. Daniel Inouye, 1924-2012 Dec 31, 2012, Vol. 18, No. 16 • By THE SCRAPBOOK Daniel Inouye, Democrat from the state of Hawaii and president pro tempore of the Senate for the last two years, died last week at age 88. The Scrapbook rarely found itself in political accord with the late senator, but his military achievement was altogether extraordinary. Inouye was one of 464 servicemen from World War II to have received the Medal of Honor, and the citation is worth reading in its entirety: Sen. Daniel Inouye, 1924-2012 Newscom “Second Lieutenant Daniel K. Inouye distinguished himself by extraordinary heroism in action on 21 April 1945, in the vicinity of San Terenzo, Italy. While attacking a defended ridge guarding an important road junction, Second Lieutenant Inouye skillfully directed his platoon through a hail of automatic weapon and small arms fire, in a swift enveloping movement that resulted in the capture of an artillery and mortar post and brought his men to within 40 yards of the hostile force. Emplaced in bunkers and rock formations, the enemy halted the advance with crossfire from three machine guns. With complete disregard for his personal safety, Second Lieutenant Inouye crawled up the treacherous slope to within five yards of the nearest machine gun and hurled two grenades, destroying the emplacement. “Before the enemy could retaliate, he stood up and neutralized a second machine gun nest. Although wounded by a sniper’s bullet, he continued to engage other hostile positions at close range until an exploding grenade shattered his right arm. Despite the intense pain, he refused evacuation and continued to direct his platoon until enemy resistance was broken and his men were again deployed in defensive positions. In the attack, 25 enemy soldiers were killed and eight others captured. By his gallant, aggressive tactics and by his indomitable leadership, Second Lieutenant Inouye enabled his platoon to advance through formidable resistance, and was instrumental in the capture of the ridge. Second Lieutenant Inouye’s extraordinary heroism and devotion to duty are in keeping with the highest traditions of military service and reflect great credit on him, his unit, and the United States Army.” ------------------------------ Date: From: Subject: [none] From: Mikeack Date: 20121223 Re: Link to the pic, "In Israel armed teachers protect children" http://www.secretsofthefed.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/In-Israel-armed-teachers-protect-children.jpg -- M.J. Ackermann, MD (Mike) Rural Family Physician, Sherbrooke, NS mikeack@ns.sympatico.ca "Hope for the best, but be prepared for the worst". ------------------------------ Date: From: Subject: [none] Subject: Nobody Really Knows What an "Assault Rifle" is, So How Are We Supposed to Ban Them? From: "Dennis R. Young" Date: Sun, December 23, 2012 10:56 pm Nobody Really Knows What an "Assault Rifle" is, So How Are We Supposed to Ban Them? Mike Cooper in Politics, Guns 10 hours ago http://www.policymic.com/articles/21191/nobody-really-knows-what-an-assault-rifle-is-so-how-are-we-supposed-to-ban-them "Everybody," according to some polls, wants to get rid of "assault weapons" like the scary and intimidatingly named Bushmaster .223. Nobody, however, knows what one is. I have challenged many PolicyMic commenters and pundits to define the term "assault rifle." As yet, not a single person has been able to do it. Not a big surprise since there is really no such thing as an "assault rifle." (And, the term "assault weapon" is sort of redundant. A weapon, by definition, is a tool used to harm or destroy an enemy, prey, equipment, or structure. All of which sounds like "assault" to me.) Here's one of many Bushmaster .223 models, by the way: Take away the over-sized hand-guards on the barrel and the stock and you've got your basic AR-15, a very old design which was not universally well-liked by members of the United States armed forces due to the difficulty of cleaning it and the weapon's propensity to jam when exposed to ambient conditions, like air. Note the scary Bushmaster logo, shown in this close-up: Yikes! Scary ... But no more deadly by virtue of having a snake engraved onto the receiver than any other rifle. Since nobody can tell you what an "assault rifle" is, here's the next best thing. Direct from the text of the the 1994 federal assault weapons ban, rifles meeting the following criteria were banned: "any semiautomatic rifle with a detachable magazine and at least two of the following five items: a folding or telescopic stock; a pistol grip that protrudes conspicuously beneath the action of the weapon; a bayonet mount; a flash suppressor or threaded barrel (a barrel that can accommodate a flash suppressor); or a grenade launcher." This is straw grasping at its most laughable (and I'm being kind when I say that). Semi-auto rifles aren't banned unless they accept 10+ round magazines and have not one but at least two of these seemingly arbitrary features. A folding or telescoping stock (a prominent feature of the Army's current M4 rifle) has no bearing on the weapon's lethality. It makes the weapon slightly easier to deal with in cramped military vehicles and aircraft but that's about it; it's not like you could fold one up and hide it in your pocket. See the stock? (That's the triangle-shaped thing to the left in the photo.) It slides in and out. That's it. Sliding it in makes the weapon about 4" shorter but no more lethal. Pistol grips which protrude conspicuously? So, if they aren't "conspicuous," they don't count, right? One day I'll do a case search to see if any prosecutor anywhere was fool enough to raise this one in court. Regardless, a pistol grip also has no bearing on the lethality of a weapon. Many gun owners don't even like them. The pistol grips on the rifles in these photos are fairly conspicuous, but that doesn't make the rifles any more lethal. You could, in fact, take the pistol grips off and not affect the rifle's function at all. Bayonet Mounts. Yes, they still make them. In a desperate wartime situation, a bayonet gives you something somewhat more effective than a raised middle finger when you've run out of bullets and the enemy is over-running your position. A bayonet is a knife. A rifle with a bayonet is essentially a spear. Many people have tried to convince me that "you can't kill as many people as fast with a knife as you can with an assault weapon." Yet the ability to mount a knife on the business end of a rifle is one of the criteria for an "assault weapon?" I'm getting a bit dizzy from the circular reasoning on this one. Flash Suppressors. These are designed primarily to prevent the shooter from being blinded by the muzzle flash when firing in the dark, a problem that arises only with shorter rifle barrels. As I recall, most mass shootings have been committed in broad daylight or well-lit areas. The notable exception is the Batman incident in Aurora, Colorado, but I really don't think the shooter was sighting in on his targets; a flash suppressor is of little use when shooting from the hip. Might be fairly useful when hunting, however, since much hunting is done either at a ridiculously early hour or a very late one. A Grenade Launcher! That's right. If you have a grenade launcher on your rifle, you may own an assault weapon. They do make rifle-mounted grenade launchers. The M203 was an M16 with a grenade launcher attached. I rarely see these for sale at Gander Mountain or anywhere else. But, of course, virtually every mass shooter has used one, right? You don't actually have to have a bayonet to meet this criteria. Just that little metal part under the front sight where you could potentially mount a bayonet. Very dangerous, that little bit of metal must be! Other than the grenade launcher, the features outlawed by this law have no bearing whatsoever on how many people you could kill. Even the magazine size limit is easily defeated using well-known infantry tricks like taping two magazines together for fast loading. These are largely cosmetic features. They make rifles look scary. That's it. A ban on "assault rifles" ... however you define them ... will be arbitrary at best and extreme in over-reach at worst. Such a ban would also be about as useful as trying to charge a large, ugly, tattooed biker with intimidation simply because of his appearance. Side Note: The Federal Assault Weapons Ban, which expired in 2004, also specifically banned the following 19 makes and models of firearms which were arbitrarily deemed to meet the cosmetic threshold: the Norinco, Mitchell, and Poly Technologies Avtomat Kalashnikovs (all models); Action Arms Israeli Military Industries UZI and Galil; the Beretta Ar70 (SC-70); Fabrique National FN/FAL, FN/LAR, and FNC; SWD M-10, M-11, M-11/9, and M-12; Steyr AUG; INTRATEC TEC-9, TEC-DC9 and TEC-22; and all "revolving cylinder shotguns," such as (or similar to) the Street Sweeper and Striker 12. And, of course, the Colt AR-15. To the best of my knowledge, most of the guns on this list would have been banned by the criteria set forth above. ------------------------------ Date: From: Subject: [none] Subject: CBC - Americans want armed guards in schools, NRA claims From: "Dennis R. Young" Date: Sun, December 23, 2012 11:04 pm CBC - Americans want armed guards in schools, NRA claims Proposal is only way to protect school children, gun lobby's CEO says The Associated Press Posted: Dec 23, 2012 2:17 PM ET http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2012/12/23/nra-lapierre-hits-talk-shows.html The largest U.S. gun rights lobbying organization on Sunday forcefully stuck to its call for placing armed police officers and security guards in every school as the best way to avoid shootings such as the recent massacre at an elementary school in Newtown, Conn. Wayne LaPierre, CEO of the National Rifle Association, said his organization would push Congress to pay for more school security guards and would co-ordinate efforts to put former military and police officers in schools as volunteer guards. "If it's crazy to call for putting police and armed security in our schools to protect our children, then call me crazy," LaPierre said in a broadcast interview. "I think the American people think it's crazy not to do it. It's the one thing that would keep people safe." LaPierre also refused to support any new gun-control legislation and contended that any new efforts by Congress to regulate guns or ammunition would not prevent mass shootings. His comments on NBC television's Meet the Press reinforced the position that the NRA took on Friday when it broke its weeklong silence on the shooting rampage at Sandy Hook Elementary School. LaPierre's remarks on Friday prompted widespread criticism, even on the front page of the conservative New York Post which ran the headline: "Gun Nut! NRA loon in bizarre rant over Newtown." The NRA's stand has been described by some lawmakers as tone-deaf. Senator Charles Schumer, a New York Democrat, says LaPierre blames everything but guns for a series of mass shootings in recent years. "Trying to prevent shootings in schools without talking about guns is like trying to prevent lung cancer without talking about cigarettes," Schumer said. The NRA plans to develop a school emergency response program that would include volunteers from the group's 4.3 million members to help guard children, and has named former Congressman Asa Hutchinson, an Arkansas Republican, as national director of the program. Hutchinson said local districts should make decisions about armed guards in schools. "I've made it clear that it should not be a mandatory law that every school has this. There should be local choice, but absolutely, I believe that protecting our children with an armed guard who is trained is an important part of the equation," he told ABC's This Week. ------------------------------ Date: From: Subject: [none] Subject: Letter: We need to register the criminals and the insane From: "Dennis R. Young" Date: Sun, December 23, 2012 11:12 pm Forwarded at Inky's request. December 23rd, 2012 LETTER TO THE EDITOR LAWFUL FIREARM OWNERS ALWAYS THE BLAME The killing of innocent children and adults always make us angry. Rightly so. Who in his or her right mind could do such a horrible deed. Most agree that a person mentally deranged would kill their own parent and other innocent children. The state of Connecticut has the country's fifth toughest gun laws, including an assault weapons ban. Whenever a mass murder takes place anywhere in the world, the first thing we hear from the media is that we need to outlaw more firearms. Our laws in Canada differ than those in the USA. In Canada we have no property rights so the government of the day can by law confiscate anything that we own. Fortunately 99.9 percent of the gun owners in Canada are law abiding citizens. We are not criminals, not insane, and don't go around shooting innocent bystanders. We don't need to apologize to anyone because we own a firearm. But the media tends to lump all lawful and peaceful firearm owners into the same pot. Somehow owning a gun makes one a potential criminal in this country. We need to register the criminals and the insane, and not lawful firearm owners. Some people enjoy fishing, others enjoy recreational shooting. Taking the guns away from the law abiding citizens is like trying to stop highway deaths through confiscating all vehicles that produce more than 100 horsepower. How many of us would tolerate such a law. The real solution is through better mental health, compulsory firearm safety training and education, and not finger pointing and blaming the lawful firearm owners. Inky Mark, former Member of Parliament Dauphin, MB inky@mymts.net ------------------------------ Date: From: Subject: [none] From: "Joe Gingrich" Subject: "Gun Control", "The Operation Mockingbird" Scandal & Media Lies Date: Sun, 23 Dec 2012 23:37:49 -0600 "Gun Control", "The "Operation Mockingbird" Scandal & Media Lies There is a JPFO documentary called "The Gang" which I believe won a film award. It's about "a former minor (U.S.) tax collection department" which has become "a billion dollar agency (BATFE)". The "documentary exposes how this agency harrasses, oppresses, intimidates and terrifies small businesses of decent citizens". Recently we saw the 'Connecticut Shop Where Nancy Lanza Bought 1 Of Her Guns Raided By Feds', Dec. 20, 2012 http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2012/12/20/connecticut-shop-where-nancy-lanza-bought-1-of-her-guns-raided-by-feds/ In addition, "The Gang" discusses what CBC's Michael Enright describes as '"the birthplace and home of the U.S. firearms industry, Colt, Winchester, Remington, and Sturm-Ruger have all set up manufacturing plants in what is called "gun valley."' However, 'The Gang' makes connections between enactment of the U.S. 1968 Gun Control Act (GCA) and some of these gun manufacturers along with ties to the late U.S. Senator Thomas Dodd from Conn. In the late 1950s and early 1960s the U.S. arms industries of "Gun Valley" were in financial trouble. The problem, some thought, was from the importation of cheap well made firearms from off-shore arms markets, places like Germany. The German Mauser-actioned rifles (most were very well made esp. the model 98s) were being sold via "mail order" across America at very affordable prices. I know folks who bought the 8mm calibers which were like new, very accurate; excellent for hunting deer, bear, even elk or moose. 'The Gang' suggests some arms companies within "Gun Valley" lobbied U.S. Senator Thomas Dodd of Conn., a democrat, for economic relief. Mitigation for the financial woes of the American firearms industry is suggested to have arrived in the form of the U.S. 1968 Gun Control Act promoted by Senator Dodd.(1,2) Yours in Tyranny, Joe Gingrich White Fox sources: 1. JPFO film documentary "The Gang" 2. "Gun Control's" Nazi Connection http://jpfo.org/filegen-a-m/GCA_68.htm --------------------------------------------------------------------------- "The Operation Mockingbird" Scandal & Media Lies "You could get a journalist cheaper than a good call girl, for a couple hundred dollars a month" http://whatreallyhappened.com/RANCHO/POLITICS/MOCK/mockingbird.php "Conspiracies are obviously a way to get things done, and the Washington Post offers little comment unless conspiracy theorizing threatens to expose a really important conspiracy that, let's say, benefits big business or big government. Such a conspiracy would be like our benevolent CIA's 1953 overthrow of the Iranian government to help out U.S. oil companies; or like our illegal war against Panama to tighten U.S. control over Panama and the Canal; or like monopoly control of broadcasting that facilitates corporate censorship on issues of public importance (*62). When the camouflage of such conspiracies is stripped away, public confidence in the conspiring officials can erode --depending on how seriously the citizenry perceives the conspiracy to have violated the public trust. Erosion of public trust in the status quo is what the Post seems to see as a real threat to its corporate security. Former Washington Post publisher Philip Graham "believing that the function of the press was more often than not to mobilize consent for the policies of the government, was one of the architects of what became a widespread practice: the use and manipulation of journalists by the CIA" (*81). This scandal was known by its code name Operation MOCKINGBIRD. Former Washington Post reporter Carl Bernstein cites a former CIA deputy director as saying, "It was widely known that Phil Graham was someone you could get help from" (*82). More recently the Post provided cover for CIA personality Joseph Fernandez by "refusing to print his name for over a year up until the day his indictment was announced ...for crimes committed in his official capacity as CIA station chief in Costa Rica" (*83). Of the meetings between Graham and his CIA acquaintances at which the availability and prices of journalists were discussed, a former CIA man recalls, "You could get a journalist cheaper than a good call girl, for a couple hundred dollars a month" (*84). One may wish to consider Philip Graham's philosophy along with a more recent statement from his wife Katharine Graham, current Chairman of the Board of the Washington Post. In a lecture on terrorism and the news media, Mrs. Graham said: "A second challenge facing the media is how to prevent terrorists from using the media as a platform fortheir views. ... The point is that we generally know when we are being manipulated, and we've learned better how and where to draw the line, though the decisions are often difficult" (*85).--------- --------The Post has answers: people revert to conspiracy theories because they need something "neat and tidy" (*88) that "plugs a gap no other generally accepted theory fills', (*89. and "coincidence ...is always the safest and most likely explanation for any conjunction of curious circumstances ..." (*90). And what does this response mean? It means that "coincidence theory" is what the Post espouses when it would prefer not to admit to a conspiracy. In other words, some things just "happen". And, besides, conspiracy to do certain things would be a crime; "coincidence" is a safer bet.------------- ------Would Harwood have us believe that media critic and former Post Ombudsman Ben Bagdikian is telling less than the truth in his account of wire-service control over news: "The largely anonymous men who control the syndicate and wire service copy desks and the central wire photo machines determine at a single decision what millions will see and hear. ...there seems to be little doubt that these gatekeepers preside over an operation in which an appalling amount of press agentry sneaks in the back door of American journalism and marches untouched out the front door as 'news'" (*95)." "On March 20, front-page headlines in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, USA Today, and the Washington Post read respectively: TSONGAS DROPPED OUT OF THE PRESIDENTIAL RACE CLEARING CLINTON'S PATH TSONGAS ABANDONS CAMPAIGN LEAVING CLINTON CLEAR PATH TOWARD SHOWDOWN WITH BUSH TSONGAS CLEARS WAY FOR CLINTON TSONGAS EXIT CLEARS WAY FOR CLINTON This display of editorial independence should at least raise questions of whether the news media collective mindset is really different from that of any other cartel -- like oil, diamond, energy, (*100) or manufacturing cartels, a cartel being "a combination of independent commercial enterprises designed to limit competition" (*101). The Washington Post editorial page carries the heading: AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER Is it? Of course not. There probably is no such thing. Does the Post"conspire" to keep its staff and its newspaper from wandering too far from the safety of mediocrity? The Post would respond that the question is absurd. In that I am not privy to the Post's telephone conversations, I can only speculate on how closely the media elite must monitor the staff. But we all know how few micro-seconds it takes a new reporter to learn what subjects are taboo and what are "safe", and that experienced reporters don't have to ask. What is more important, however, than speculating about how the Post communicates within its own corporate structure and with other members of the cartel, is to document and publicize what the Post does in public, namely, how it shapes and censors the news. Sincerely, Julian C. Holmes Copies to: Public-spirited citizens, both inside and outside the news media, And - maybe a few others." 1. "An additional good short reference is "The CIA's Greatest Hits" by Mark Zepezauer. There you will find the reference to Carl Bernstein's classic "The CIA and the Media" which appeared in Rolling Stone on Oct. 20, 1977." http://whatreallyhappened.com/RANCHO/POLITICS/ARCHIVE/ciamedia.html 2. "Still another recent example of the CIA's control of the media is the spiking of Sally Denton's & Roger Morris' story,"THE CRIMES OF MENA" http://whatreallyhappened.com/RANCHO/POLITICS/ARCHIVE/CRIMES_OF_MENA.html by Washington Post managing editor Bob Kaiser even though the story had been legally vetted and cleared for publication. Indeed the story, which details the CIA's involvement in drug trafficing, was already typeset and ready to go when it was killed withouty explanation." 3. "An example of media lies can be found in this example of a faked newspaper photograph" http://whatreallyhappened.com/RANCHO/LIE/lie.html a. "Our job is to give people not what they want, but what we decide they ought to have." -- Richard Salent, Former President CBS News. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- b. "News is what someone wants to suppress. Everything else is advertising". former NBC news President Rubin Frank --------------------------------------------------------------------------- c. Asked to give a toast before the prestigious New York Press Club in 1880, John Swinton, the former Chief of Staff at the New York Times, made this candid confession [it's worth noting that Swinton was called "The Dean of His Profession" by other newsmen, who admired him greatly]: " There is no such thing, at this date of the world's history, as an independent press. You know it and I know it. There is not one of you who dares to write your honest opinions, and if you did, you know beforehand that it would never appear in print. I am paid weekly for keeping my honest opinions out of the paper I am connected with. Others of you are paid similar salaries for similar things, and any of you who would be so foolish as to write honest opinions would be out on the streets looking for another job. If I allowed my honest opinions to appear in one issue of my paper, before twenty-four hours my occupation would be gone. The business of the journalist is to destroy the truth; to lie outright; to pervert; to vilify; to fawn at the feet of Mammon, and to sell the country for his daily bread. You know it and I know it and what folly is this toasting an independent press. We are the tools and vassals of the rich men behind the scenes. We are the jumping jacks, they pull the strings and we dance. Our talents, our possibilities and our lives are all the property of other men. We are intellectual prostitutes. 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